Having covered a wide swath of stylistic ground in their 11-year existence, the organ-driven soul-jazz trio Soulive turns its attention to the Beatles with the September 14th release of Rubber Soulive on the band’s own Royal Family Records imprint.

“We’ve always been big Beatles fans,” says the group’s guitarist, Eric Krasno, speaking for himself and the band’s other two members, brothers Neal and Alan Evans, on keyboards and drums, respectively. Krasno had been working on an arrangement of the Fab Four’s “Get Back” when the Beatles entire catalogue was reissued last year to great fanfare. Soon those discs were on heavy rotation in the group’s van while on tour. Subsequently Soulive played an all-Beatles set at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. last Halloween. The fun they had doing that show inspired them to record a full disc Beatles tracks. “We thought about doing all of Rubber Soul,” Krasno recalls, “but that band has so many great tunes. We picked the ones that lent themselves well to our sound, and others where we could add the Soulive flavor.”

So what appears on Rubber Soulive are all-instrumental renditions of two tracks from Rubber Soul (“Drive My Car” and “In My Life”) augmented by nine other Beatles’ works, including “Taxman,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Come Together,” “Day Tripper” and George Harrison’s “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” All of the tracks are rendered in classic ’60’s-era organ-trio funky fashion. Booker T. and the M.G.’s — who released their own instrumental tribute to the Beatles, McLemore Avenue, in 1970 — would no doubt give this release their wholehearted stamp of approval.

For more information, go to www.soulive.com and www.royalfamilyrecords.com.